mytwomonkeys Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 My Side of the Mountain :) this is my absolute favorite as well:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpnick in nc Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 The Secret Garden fell in a creek, and I still kept it and read it with the wavy, puffed out pages and all. :001_smile:I dropped my copy of Little Women in my grandparents' yard, and it was mauled by a dog and carried to a neighboring field. I found it, taped it together and finished reading it. It is still the copy I have. Others favorites: Nancy Drew, Little House series, Childhood of Famous Americans books, An Old-Fashioned Girl, Anne of Green Gables (somehow didn't discover these until 7th grade) High school: Jane Austen books, Jane Eyre, Tess of the d'Urbevilles (I don't like Tess as much as I did as a teen - my taste has swung more toward Austen) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtney.byrum Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Favorite picture books: The Little House Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel The Giant Jam Sandwich Some favorite chapter books: Nancy Drew, Bobbsey Twins, Happy Hollisters --- in fact I still have them all for my kids :) Wrinkle in Time The Westing Game Phantom Tollbooth From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lailasmum Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 My favourite books as a child were: Milly Molly Mandy The Little House Series The Greene Knowe Series by Lucy M Boston Why the Whales came by Michael Morpurgo All of these books have left an imprint on my mind of how I felt reading them and the images that they evoked. I can drop right back into reading them like a child. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertmum Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 (edited) The Little Prince (Saint-Exupery). Jim Button and Lucas the Engine Driver (Michael Ende). The Three Musketeers (Dumas). Edited November 2, 2011 by desertmum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyofsixreboot Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 And I loved How Fletcher was Hatched. Not seen that mentioned. Thanks for that! I've got a Fletcher and never find anything with his name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down_the_Rabbit_Hole Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Trixie Belden Series Children of the Sea The Littles Harriet the Spy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Haiku Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 The Betsy books by Carolyn Haywood Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink The Belgariad series by David Eddings All-of-a-Kind Family by Sidney Taylor From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell Tara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T Baer Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 I read this library book in the 1st or 2nd grade and it gave me the view of the world larger than my poor neighborhood. As an adult, I looked off and on for this book, but couldn't find it. Lo and behold, I discovered it at a church where I was teaching a coop class...in one of their Sunday School rooms. They let me have it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KristenR Posted November 2, 2011 Author Share Posted November 2, 2011 For the first time in possibly a couple of decades, a memory of this book came to me in the past week and I had no idea how in the world I would locate it when I could recall nothing but those detailed pictures. The possibility of asking the hive occurred to me but the odds seemed pretty slim considering how little I remembered. Then I read this and would you believe it was some ghost memory of the author's name that made me pause and look again. Totally crazy. hhehehhe I am so glad that this post is proving helpful to other people as well!! :lol: The recommendations have been great and my amazon wish list is going to be LOADED this year!! It was really nice to see so many books repeatedly mentioned. You know its a goodie then! And I also loved hearing about so many new (old) books that I otherwise might have missed. Thank you everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorrainejmc Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 I forgot to add My Naughty Little Sister series. One story had the words "knickers" in it and I thought this was shocking and hilarious all at once.:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalphs Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 (edited) So what books left such a lasting impression on you that you can't wait to share them with your kids. Any kind of book - it can be a living book or textbook or comic book- whatever. For me I remember being totally immersed in True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi. Please add your memorable must haves for me to add to my x-mas wishlist!! Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey Andrew Henry's Meadow by Doris Burn The Bear's Christmas by Stan and Jan Berenstain Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski Blue Ridge Billy by Lois Lenski The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder Mary Poppins Pippi Longstocking and Pippi in the South Seas by Astrid Lindergren Ramona the Pest (Entire Henry and Ramona series) by Beverly Cleary Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary Katie John by Mary Calhoun The Borrowers by Mary Norton The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass Mrs. Piggle Wiggle series Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Jester Childhood of Famous Americans series Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery Where the Red Fern Grows and Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls 101 Dalmations by Dodie Smith The Story of the Trapp Familly Singers by Maria Von Trapp The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Sounder by William H. Armstrong The Complete Works by William Shakespeare 1984 by George Orwell Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Good-bye Mister Chips by James Hilton Edited November 3, 2011 by kalphs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SorrelZG Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Okay .. I didn't add my favorite book because I have been thinking and thinking and thinking about this and still this morning am feeling pretty disappointed but not sure if it should be with myself (memory worse than I realized?) or my childhood (I apparently read a lot of trash because that's all I can remember - no stories that moved me enough to recall much more than the cover or series name or author or genre or that would choose to read again .. ever). I haven't even read most of the books mentioned already or even heard of many of them! This is somewhat of a traumatic revelation for me but redoubles my resolve to fill my own children's lives with quality literature. I do recall reading the Chronicles of Narnia and DH has taken upon himself the reading aloud of these to our firstborn but I realized last night that they don't have much hold in my heart or mind. The only two books that did stick to me were a couple from my last couple of years in high school - 1984 and A Brave New World. As I think about it I'm thinking they stuck because .. I don't know how to express it .. I had to chew? I recall being so offended by A Brave New World that I didn't even finish it in high school (I don't remember but I presume that paper didn't turn out well) but what I did read stuck with me enough that I came back to it a couple years later and finished it. Oh wait .. now another comes back to me - Lord of the Flies. Another senior English assignment. I never really thought about how much that class challenged me until now. .. oh, and obviously these won't be shared for quite a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kandty Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 The Maggie B My grandma had this book and I adored it! I so wanted to live this story! When I was a teenager I found this book on my grandma's garage sale and I saved it and still have it today. My boys don't think too much about it. :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beccad777 Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 My Side of the Mountain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missouri Okie Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 I have so many that I loved, they are like old friends now. The one that stands out to me is: The Bridges at Toko-Ri. I was in 4th grade and we were instructed to pick out a book for a report from the book shelf. At the time, I had not really enjoyed reading. I picked this book solely on the basis of thickness, or lack thereof in comparison to the others. I read it three times and wrote a huge report, for a 4th grader, mostly about my feelings, not about the book. It sparked something inside me that I will never forget..... I think I need to put that old friend out again. :) I read voraciously as a kid. Now that you mention this book, I remember very well seeing it on one of my teacher's bookshelves. I remember passing it up dozens of times when looking for a book to read because war stories had zero appeal to me. Hmmm....I may have to give it a shot now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeaganS Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Anne of Green Gables The Giver The Boxcar Children Ender's Game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadsandLilysMom Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Hands down my favorite book was To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I read it in 6th grade and re-read it many, many times over the years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissKNG Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 (edited) Any Garfield comic book Anne of Green Gables Sweet Valley books (*gasp* twaddle!!!:lol:) Nancy Drew Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Let the Circle be Unbroken Uncle Tom's Cabin All Quiet on the Western Front Ramona Quimby books How to Snoop in Your Sister's Diary I used to also love those books where you can choose which page to go to and have different endings. Edited November 2, 2011 by MissKNG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaughingCat Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Ones I don't think I've seen mentioned: Swallows and Amazons - I must have checked that book out of the library several hundred times :D One hundred and one Dalmatians by Dodie Smith Daddy Long Legs Also some mentioned by others: The Secret Garden Many of Louisa May Alcott's (except NOT Little Women! I'd say An Old Fashioned Girl was my favorite) the Narnia books On my brother's behalf - a non-reader's favorite book: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ourjourneys Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 There is this little book and I can not remember the name of it - I would love to know if any of you know what it is... The setting is during the early AD years. It is about P. Benjamin Methusula (spelling??) who is a rich glutton of a little boy who has closets full of toys. He lives in a mansion on a hill in Jerusalem. Then the other character is little John who lives in the valley and has one room in the house where he lives with his widowed mom. She begs and mends then rich mens shoes and clothes. On Sunday it is time to go to church and give an offering. P. Benjamin gives 7 toys away and they make loud sounds when he drops them in the treasury box at church. Little John gives a penny - the only penny they have. P. Benjamin laughs when it is dropped in and barely makes a tinkle. While he is laughing and pointing at little John, he says, I gave that penny to them this morning as they were begging at the city gate. But Jesus says to them: What's 2+2+2+1? It's 7, my friend, only 7. But what's all plus all? It's very close to heaven. I do not tell this to my kids so they will be religious, go to church and give money (I am actually far against that for many reasons), but rather to help others with what little we have. This was by far my favorite book in the world from when I was little. I have told it numerous times before bed - it seems to put things into perspective if we seem to be greedy and unthankful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lolosoli Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Anne of Green Gables and Lambert the Sheepish Lion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelli Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 The Indian in the Cupboard (my mom found lots of Barbie dolls behind cabinet doors :)) The book I read and re-read the most from my childhood was one that no one hear has probably heard about. My fourth grade teacher was good friends with William Faulkner's niece. She came to visit our class and brought copies of a book she had written about ghost stories her uncle used to tell. She signed all of our copies. I spent this past summer up in my parent's attic finding the book. I read it every year well into high school. The name of the book is The Ghosts of Rowan Oak: William Faulkner's Ghost Stories for Children by Dean Faulkner Wells. Guess what I pulled out this Halloween to read to my dd7? :D I still love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyinND Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 The Trumpet of the Swan Are You My Mother? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Bobbsey Twins I was just going back to edit my post and add these!! I'm surprised I forgot them as I still collect older copies of these books. If we are talking picture books then Wacky Wednesday and Fox in Socks would be on the top. I still have my copies of these and Fox in Socks is falling apart! :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clear Creek Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 When I was in elementary school, it was definitely Bridge to Terabithia. During junior high...I can't believe I am admitting this...it was Singularity, a sci-fi/psychological thriller. I don't know what it was about that book, but I wore out my library's copy of it! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenangelcat Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Island of the Blue Dolphins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinivanMom Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 The Little House books The Witch of Blackbird Pond Anne of Green Gables Jacob Have I Loved Jane Eyre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parker Martin Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 A Wrinkle in Time The Phantom Tollbooth The Cay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweetMissMagnolia Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 I wish I could remember the name of this book so I could get it--from how I remember it,it was a book about egyptology LOL and if I couldn't understand it,I would make mom read it to me (same with nancy drew LOL)----I have a book I had when i was a baby called MOONEY MOUSE--it's literally falling apart. I wish I could find where to buy another one...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momto2Cs Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 (edited) Ultra Violet Catastrophe: Or the Unexpected Walk with Great Uncle Magnus Pringle Oh, and Horrible Hepzibah, which unfortunately I cannot find for under $100 :( Edited November 2, 2011 by momto2Cs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenjenn Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Wrinkle In Time and others by Madeline L'Engle Where the Red Fern Grows Island of the Blue Dolphins Chronicles of Narnia Stuart Little Are some that come to mind.. Gosh I don't think I read NEARLY as many books as my kids do. And I was a reader. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalphs Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 The Indian in the Cupboard (my mom found lots of Barbie dolls behind cabinet doors :)) I love it! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eewaggie99 Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 The Best Christmas Pageant Ever We read this every Christmas! My kids adore it and my dh just shakes his head like we're crazy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tessbois Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 generally I can tell age range of person doing the answering based on their books. perhaps mine will be no different. Black stallion series A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (I remember LOVING that one) Nancy Drew Series Hardy Boys Series All the books about dogs and animals in general And my first adult book read in the 6th grade was the East of Eden, Travels with Charlie and Tortilla Flats all Steinbeck books. He was from Salinas and as a fellow townsperson I felt connected to his writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Charlie's Monument Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In the Rain Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 There is this little book and I can not remember the name of it - I would love to know if any of you know what it is...The setting is during the early AD years. It is about P. Benjamin Methusula (spelling??) I sent you a pm about this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 I loved the Melendy Family series by Elizabeth Enright. My elementary school library had a big volume of all 4 books - I still remember where it was on the bottom shelf with it's shiney pinkish binding. I'm so happy to see that they are back in print. Also King of the Wind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zelli21 Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Depending on the age and stage...Where the Wild Things Are. Then the Baby Sitters Club series (I think I read nearly every book in the series; like 3 a night during the summer). From there it was Izzy Willy Nilly and To Kill a Mockingbird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRTGSw2K Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Little Women closely followed by Anne of Green Gables. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom31257 Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Mr Pine's Purple House I loved this book as a kid. Mr. Pine wants his house to look different than all the others, so he makes changes, but the neighbors all copy his ideas. My sister bought it and gave it to me a couple of years ago. I enjoyed reading it with my kids. Harold and the Purple Crayon I loved these stories, too. Can you tell I liked purple as a child? Where the Red Fern Grows was my favorite first novels. My 5th grade teacher read it to us aloud, and I bawled when the dogs died. My favorite novel in my later teens was Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
................... Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Anne of Green Gables A Wrinkle in Time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2jjka Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 And I loved How Fletcher was Hatched. Not seen that mentioned. Yes!!! I love that book. (I still have my original copy :D) As far as chapter books, Charlotte's Web and Island of the Blue Dolphins rank up there pretty high on my list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NapLover Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 (edited) Dr. Seuss Everything especially Green Eggs and Ham Charlie Needs a Cloak The Tooth Fairy The Little Black Puppy Little House Books Andrew Lang Color Fairy Books Pippi Longstocking Edited November 4, 2011 by NapLover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald Stoker Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 (edited) nm Edited November 21, 2012 by Honoria Glossop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joannqn Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 My absolute favorite story was "Small One". It was a read along on LP that I had and listened to over and over and over. I actually bought a copy and found out it had been changed, so I hunted down a copy of it on LP even though I don't have a record player. Other than that: The Hobbit and LOTR Little Women, Little Men, and Jo's Boys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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